Big Chief Mkuja is a band hailing from the South West of England, Bath area. They formed in 2001 initially to record an album of original material. Their music is of the alternative genre.
Their first release was Twelve Braves in 2002 on Celadore Records with the line-up of Clive Thomas on drums and vocals (previously drummer in The Room), Fred Reynolds on bass and vocals (previously bass player and founder member of the Akrylykz, bass player with Kissing the Pink, Roland Gift's Fine Young Cannibals).Fred Reynolds played bass on Desmond Dekkers' Album Black And Dekker , Kent Godwin guitars, keyboards,programming (Subtle Bodies, Bone Idol, Bradford Road Blues Band, Squashy Mangoes, Nestones), Harry Godwin guitar (Baby Jesus Foetus Eaters, Axe Attack) and Mike Ware drums (Subtle Bodies).
The line up changed in 2012 for their second album release, Iceberg. Kent Godwin on guitar, Mike Ware on drums and percussion, Miss Demeanour on vocals. New members are Martin Cook bass,and Jon Llewellyn guitar. Videos for the band are created by Jack Godwin (animator).
Two tracks from Iceberg, Mermaid and Train Song, have been played on 6 Music’s Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone. Celdaore Records has just released a remix of the first Album Twelve Braves Nov 2013.Their most recent live performance was at Brystock 2013 The band is rehearsing and working on a new album due for release late 2014.
Their first release was Twelve Braves in 2002 on Celadore Records with the line-up of Clive Thomas on drums and vocals (previously drummer in The Room), Fred Reynolds on bass and vocals (previously bass player and founder member of the Akrylykz, bass player with Kissing the Pink, Roland Gift's Fine Young Cannibals).Fred Reynolds played bass on Desmond Dekkers' Album Black And Dekker , Kent Godwin guitars, keyboards,programming (Subtle Bodies, Bone Idol, Bradford Road Blues Band, Squashy Mangoes, Nestones), Harry Godwin guitar (Baby Jesus Foetus Eaters, Axe Attack) and Mike Ware drums (Subtle Bodies).
The line up changed in 2012 for their second album release, Iceberg. Kent Godwin on guitar, Mike Ware on drums and percussion, Miss Demeanour on vocals. New members are Martin Cook bass,and Jon Llewellyn guitar. Videos for the band are created by Jack Godwin (animator).
Two tracks from Iceberg, Mermaid and Train Song, have been played on 6 Music’s Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone. Celdaore Records has just released a remix of the first Album Twelve Braves Nov 2013.Their most recent live performance was at Brystock 2013 The band is rehearsing and working on a new album due for release late 2014.
William Weissinger is a stone sculpture artist located in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington.
Biography
William Weissinger is an attorney turned stone sculpture artist who transforms limestone, marble, alabaster, and granite from raw rock into
representational and purely abstract forms. His work is produced using hand-chisel, machine, sand-paper, and rasps.
His work can be grouped by type.
Abstract
"Stormy Weather; Energy" - Chlorite on Kansas limestone fencepost
"Spring Dance" - Limestone sculpture with sandstone base
"Love on the Edge" - Alabaster on granite base
Whimsical
"Were-Tie" - Silk found tie, on stainless steel
"Were-Tie II: The Threat" - Stainless steel
Representational
"Swimming Free II" - Alabaster
"Scottie" - Alabaster
"Bear" - Kansas Limestone
"Fallen Leaf" - River rock with black intrusion
"Two Salmon" - Translucent Alabaster
"River Woman" - River Granite
"Spirit Bear" - Translucent Alabaster
"Bear in a Boat" - White alabaster bear on gray with alabaster base
"Bear" - Raspberry Alabaster
"Salmon" - Grey translucent alabaster on granite base
"Friends and Lovers II" Swirl of Salmon - Alabaster
"Friends and Lovers I" Swirl of Salmon - Grey Alabaster
Outdoors
"Maple Leaf Bench" - Granite
Artifact Series
"Tower #7" - Limestone
"Tower #5" - Alabaster
"Tower #3" - Alabaster
"Tower #4" - Limestone
"Tower #6" - Tonino Sandstone
"Two Towers" - Translucent Alabaster
Relic III - Three Thrones - Golden marble, sand, found pottery base
"Relic IV - Twister Tower" - Texas Ice Alabaster on granite base
"Relic V - Throne" - Sandstone on granite base
"King's and Queen's thrones" - Alabaster on granite base
"Crooked Throne" - Golden Marble
Education
1980-1982: University of Chicago Law School. Juris Doctor awarded June 1982 with honors. Ranked in the top 1% of class. Member of Order of the Coif, a legal honorary society.
1977-1979: Loyola University School of Law, evening division. Ranked the top person in his class.
1971-1973: Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. M.S. Degree. Grade point average: 3.6/4.0.
1965-1970: State University of New York at Albany. B.A. degree, psychology major. Dean's List and a 4.0/4.0 average his senior year.
1965: New York Regent's Scholarship
Work Experience
April, 1990 to Present: Founded general civil practice focusing on real estate and land use, County permits and appeals, contract law, litigation, general corporate and business work, probate and estate planning on San Juan Island, Washington.
July, 1990 - January, 1991: Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for San Juan County, assigned to civil matters.
1985-1990: Attorney for Damon Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.
1982-1985: Associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, a major Boston law firm.
1979-1980: Industrial Relations Manager for I.T.T. in Clear, Alaska.
1973-1979: Employed by Johnson and Johnson in a series of increasingly responsible positions in the area of labor relations.
Biography
William Weissinger is an attorney turned stone sculpture artist who transforms limestone, marble, alabaster, and granite from raw rock into
representational and purely abstract forms. His work is produced using hand-chisel, machine, sand-paper, and rasps.
His work can be grouped by type.
Abstract
"Stormy Weather; Energy" - Chlorite on Kansas limestone fencepost
"Spring Dance" - Limestone sculpture with sandstone base
"Love on the Edge" - Alabaster on granite base
Whimsical
"Were-Tie" - Silk found tie, on stainless steel
"Were-Tie II: The Threat" - Stainless steel
Representational
"Swimming Free II" - Alabaster
"Scottie" - Alabaster
"Bear" - Kansas Limestone
"Fallen Leaf" - River rock with black intrusion
"Two Salmon" - Translucent Alabaster
"River Woman" - River Granite
"Spirit Bear" - Translucent Alabaster
"Bear in a Boat" - White alabaster bear on gray with alabaster base
"Bear" - Raspberry Alabaster
"Salmon" - Grey translucent alabaster on granite base
"Friends and Lovers II" Swirl of Salmon - Alabaster
"Friends and Lovers I" Swirl of Salmon - Grey Alabaster
Outdoors
"Maple Leaf Bench" - Granite
Artifact Series
"Tower #7" - Limestone
"Tower #5" - Alabaster
"Tower #3" - Alabaster
"Tower #4" - Limestone
"Tower #6" - Tonino Sandstone
"Two Towers" - Translucent Alabaster
Relic III - Three Thrones - Golden marble, sand, found pottery base
"Relic IV - Twister Tower" - Texas Ice Alabaster on granite base
"Relic V - Throne" - Sandstone on granite base
"King's and Queen's thrones" - Alabaster on granite base
"Crooked Throne" - Golden Marble
Education
1980-1982: University of Chicago Law School. Juris Doctor awarded June 1982 with honors. Ranked in the top 1% of class. Member of Order of the Coif, a legal honorary society.
1977-1979: Loyola University School of Law, evening division. Ranked the top person in his class.
1971-1973: Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. M.S. Degree. Grade point average: 3.6/4.0.
1965-1970: State University of New York at Albany. B.A. degree, psychology major. Dean's List and a 4.0/4.0 average his senior year.
1965: New York Regent's Scholarship
Work Experience
April, 1990 to Present: Founded general civil practice focusing on real estate and land use, County permits and appeals, contract law, litigation, general corporate and business work, probate and estate planning on San Juan Island, Washington.
July, 1990 - January, 1991: Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for San Juan County, assigned to civil matters.
1985-1990: Attorney for Damon Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.
1982-1985: Associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, a major Boston law firm.
1979-1980: Industrial Relations Manager for I.T.T. in Clear, Alaska.
1973-1979: Employed by Johnson and Johnson in a series of increasingly responsible positions in the area of labor relations.
Mozart Was a Red was an unpublished one-act play written in the 1960s by libertarian economist Murray Rothbard. The morality play was written as a farce, inspired by the author's meetings with Ayn Rand. Based on Rothbard's allegation that the expectation by Rand's circle was that she and her Objectivist views were to be considered absolute, the play parodied Rand (through the character "Carson Sand") and her friends during a visit from Keith Hackley, a fan of Sand's novel The Brow of Zeus (a play on Rand's most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged).
The play was never officially published, although it was passed around various libertarian circles and on the internet following its original writing. It was performed for Rothbard's 60th birthday celebration at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 1986.
The play was never officially published, although it was passed around various libertarian circles and on the internet following its original writing. It was performed for Rothbard's 60th birthday celebration at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 1986.
Marathon Singh (Jagjit Singh) is the first Sikh to have completed not only 111 full marathons but have also done it in seven continents. He has raised over £10,000 during these 111 full marathons.
The most recent marathon, the Ice Marathon, was completed in Antarctica, on 20 November 2013. Marathon Singh started collecting for sevencharities to mark the membership of the seven continents club. Jagjit is also a strict vegetarian.
Contents 1. Childhood and life
2. Clubs
3. Achievements
4. Awards
5. Local community Elections
1.Childhood and Life
Jagjit Singh was born in Hardo Phrohla Punjab, India 4th January 1959, the youngest of four children. Jagjit Singh was taught running by his father from the age of four. As he got older he had to do many things as his education, farming and he had to take care of the house at a young age. Jagjit was inspired to run by his dad who was in the Indian Army. Jagjit's father has many awards of running in cross country. His father has certificates to show him coming first or second in his country. His mother sadly past away in 1988, due to breast cancer. He was determined to run for charity after his mother’s death. He emigrated to England in 1989 and lived in England with a job in West London, Hayes. Jagjit got married to his wife in 2000 and was blessed with his daughter in October 2000. Three years later he had his son also in October 2003. He came to England thinking that he wants to run marathons. Jagjit ran his first marathon, the Flora London Marathon 2004. At first, he could not get an entry but he ran for ‘Get Kids Going’ and raised £1800. From then he started running for charity and wanted to do it in the remberance of his mother. His target was to cover six continents in the memory of his mother and accomplish 100 marathons. He never thought he would set foot on Antarctica for his mother, father, wife, daughter and his son. At 40years, he took seriously to running and ended up in international marathon events. When he ran his first marathon, the London marathon, he found it quite hard. He used to run up to 30 kilometers easily and wanted to run a marathon. From there on, all the way from 2004, running marathons became a hobby. Jagjit Singh is 172 cm (5 ft. 8 in) tall and weighs 68 kg (149 lb). Jagjit usually follows a simple diet, and is a strict lacto vegetarian ( A non-egg eating vegetarian), and is also strictly against the consumption of alcohol and smoking of cigarettes.
Jagjit thinks that the first 3 miles of a marathon are difficult, but later on into the marathon it becomes slightly easier.
2.Clubs
Jagjit Singh is a member of four clubs: UK Athletics, BA running club, the 100 marathon club and just recently I have joined the exclusive 7continent marathon club. These clubs are very useful in marathons.
3.Achievements :
Check the website : http://www.marathonsingh.com/page7.php
4.Awards
In March 2005 Jagjit was awarded in the House of Commons, in Central London, the organization of Punjabi’s in Britain award. This organization is run by MP John McDonald and twelve other Members of Parliament. Jagjit was honored for his work in sports and charity. In March 2007, Jagjit was honored a second time, at once again the House of Commons. Then Jagjit was honored in India in 2013 by the ex-cabinet Minister of Punjab, Bibi Satwant Kaur for sports and charity work, similar or even the same reason Jagjit was honored in 2005 and 2007.
5.Local Community Elections
In 2006 and 2010, as a Labour member, Jagjit helped Labour with campaigning for the local MPs in Hayes, Hillingdon and Ealing. He is still currently a member of the Labour party.
The most recent marathon, the Ice Marathon, was completed in Antarctica, on 20 November 2013. Marathon Singh started collecting for sevencharities to mark the membership of the seven continents club. Jagjit is also a strict vegetarian.
Contents 1. Childhood and life
2. Clubs
3. Achievements
4. Awards
5. Local community Elections
1.Childhood and Life
Jagjit Singh was born in Hardo Phrohla Punjab, India 4th January 1959, the youngest of four children. Jagjit Singh was taught running by his father from the age of four. As he got older he had to do many things as his education, farming and he had to take care of the house at a young age. Jagjit was inspired to run by his dad who was in the Indian Army. Jagjit's father has many awards of running in cross country. His father has certificates to show him coming first or second in his country. His mother sadly past away in 1988, due to breast cancer. He was determined to run for charity after his mother’s death. He emigrated to England in 1989 and lived in England with a job in West London, Hayes. Jagjit got married to his wife in 2000 and was blessed with his daughter in October 2000. Three years later he had his son also in October 2003. He came to England thinking that he wants to run marathons. Jagjit ran his first marathon, the Flora London Marathon 2004. At first, he could not get an entry but he ran for ‘Get Kids Going’ and raised £1800. From then he started running for charity and wanted to do it in the remberance of his mother. His target was to cover six continents in the memory of his mother and accomplish 100 marathons. He never thought he would set foot on Antarctica for his mother, father, wife, daughter and his son. At 40years, he took seriously to running and ended up in international marathon events. When he ran his first marathon, the London marathon, he found it quite hard. He used to run up to 30 kilometers easily and wanted to run a marathon. From there on, all the way from 2004, running marathons became a hobby. Jagjit Singh is 172 cm (5 ft. 8 in) tall and weighs 68 kg (149 lb). Jagjit usually follows a simple diet, and is a strict lacto vegetarian ( A non-egg eating vegetarian), and is also strictly against the consumption of alcohol and smoking of cigarettes.
Jagjit thinks that the first 3 miles of a marathon are difficult, but later on into the marathon it becomes slightly easier.
2.Clubs
Jagjit Singh is a member of four clubs: UK Athletics, BA running club, the 100 marathon club and just recently I have joined the exclusive 7continent marathon club. These clubs are very useful in marathons.
3.Achievements :
Check the website : http://www.marathonsingh.com/page7.php
4.Awards
In March 2005 Jagjit was awarded in the House of Commons, in Central London, the organization of Punjabi’s in Britain award. This organization is run by MP John McDonald and twelve other Members of Parliament. Jagjit was honored for his work in sports and charity. In March 2007, Jagjit was honored a second time, at once again the House of Commons. Then Jagjit was honored in India in 2013 by the ex-cabinet Minister of Punjab, Bibi Satwant Kaur for sports and charity work, similar or even the same reason Jagjit was honored in 2005 and 2007.
5.Local Community Elections
In 2006 and 2010, as a Labour member, Jagjit helped Labour with campaigning for the local MPs in Hayes, Hillingdon and Ealing. He is still currently a member of the Labour party.